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Oil on canvas. 57 X 68 cm. Inv. No 2974 The picture was attributed to Mathieu Lenain by P. Weiner, an opinion shared by S. Ernst and V. La-zarev. Ch. Sterling believed it to be the work of an unknown painter, the author of The Procession with a Ram. This attribution was confirmed by J. Thuil-lier in the catalogue of the exhibition "Les freres Le Nam", 1978, Paris. Another variant of the picture (72 X 92 cm) was in 1938 in the Weissmann Collection, Paris.

Provenance: until 1918 The Sheremetevs Collection, Ostankino (near Moscow); 1918—37 The Ostankino

Estate Museum; since 1937 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibition: 1978 Paris, Cat. 80

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 43; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 80; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 10; П. Вейнер, "Жизнь и искусство в Останкине", Старые годы, 1910, May — June, p. 59, ill.; S.Ernst, "Les CEuvres des freres Le Nain en Russie", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 13, 1926, pp. 310, 311, ill.; В. Лазарев, Братья Ленен, Moscow — Leningrad, 1936, p. 59; G. Isarlo, "Les Trois Le Nain et leur suite", La Renaissance, 1938, March, p. 22, ill.; ГМИИ 1966, No 51; Anto-nova 1977, No 55

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